Saturday, November 6, 2010

This is beyond sick. Democratic pollster Mark Penn, while on Hardball with Chris Matthews, actually implied that an event like the Oklahoma City bombing is what Obama needs to re-connect with the American people. His pathetic argument is that Bill Clinton seemed to be disconnected from Americans until that event. After his post-bombing speech, Penn says Clinton reconnected. So all we need is a successful terror attack, Mr. Penn?

The hubris of these people when it comes to getting what they want knows no bounds. Have a look at where 'ends justify the means' mentality takes you. Unless I'm misreading this guy, he's advocating the deaths of human beings if it bolsters the president's poll numbers. After all, Obama told Bob Woodward that American can 'absorb' an attack.

There is a short clip of Barack Obama's upcoming appearance on CBS' 60 Minutes in which he talks about the huge Republican victories in this week's elections. When afforded the opportunity to eat some humble pie, he basically apologized for not being able to communicate effectively to the American people. The arrogance of this man is beyond palpable. We're all choking on it. In his world, Americans are simply not educated enough to understand his brilliance.

“Over the course of two years we were so busy and so focused on getting a bunch of stuff done that we stopped paying attention to the fact that leadership isn’t just legislation, that it’s a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence and bringing them together and setting a tone and making an argument that people can understand.”

The implication should be clear. Obama is smart enough to know what's good for Americans but is not smart enough to relate to a bunch of simpletons.

POLITICO posted a short clip of the interview but it does not include the part about 'making an argument that people can understand.'

Actually, it was Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) who made the argument Obama couldn't understand. Remember this complete dress down and spanking of the president during the health care debate?

A chief deputy under Hillary Clinton at the U.S. State Department went to Geneva's U.N. Human Rights Council to sit in front of representatives from other countries so the United States could be chastised about its record on Human Rights. Michael Posner, who is already known for apologizing to the Chinese for Arizona's audacity to sign a bill into law that would allow it to protect its citizens, willingly sat in front of the worst of the worst when it comes to human rights abuses and took their abuse.

The Obama administration got a new “shellacking” this morning, this one entirely voluntary. In the name of improving America’s image abroad, it sent three top officials from the State Department to Geneva’s U.N. Human Rights Council to be questioned about America’s human rights record by the likes of Cuba, Iran, and North Korea.

This was the first so-called “universal periodic review” of human rights in the U.S. by the Council, which the Obama administration decided to join in 2009.

The move represents a striking departure from prior American foreign policy, which has been to ratify selected human rights treaties after due consideration and submit American policy-makers to recommendations based on well-conceived standards accepted by the United States.

But in the three-hour inquisition which took place this morning, Michael Posner, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor responded with “thanks to very many of the delegations for thoughtful comments and suggestions” shortly after Cuba said the U.S. blockade of Cuba was a “crime of genocide,” Iran “condemned and expressed its deep concern over the situation of human rights” in the United States, and North Korea said it was “concerned by systematic widespread violations committed by the United States at home and abroad.”

So the United States is allowing itself to be lectured by North Korea, Cuba, and Iran on how it treats its citizens - and illegal aliens. If Posner was grilled over our abortion record in this country, I might feel a bit better about this.